Fifty Years of Women in Mathematics

​Janet Beery is co-editor of Women in Mathematics: Celebrating the Centennial of the Mathematical Association of America (Springer, 2018) and is serving her second term as AWM Clerk on the AWM Executive Committee. Although trained as a group theorist, she is now a historian of mathematics specializing in early modern European mathematics. She edited Convergence, the MAA’s online journal on the history of mathematics and its use in teaching, from 2009 to 2019. Since earning the PhD in 1989, she has been a professor of mathematics at the University of Redlands, California.Sarah Greenwald is co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society (Salem Press, 2011), Women in Mathematics: Celebrating the Centennial of the Mathematical Association of America (Springer, 2018), and a number of special issues of PRIMUS (2004, 2007, and 2019). She has won several awards, most recently an AWM Service Award. She is an author or co-author of a number of articles related to the history of underrepresented groups as well as the history of AWM, including “The Association for Women in Mathematics: How and Why It Was Founded, and Why It’s Still Needed in the 21st Century” (The Mathematical Intelligencer, 2015). She is associate editor of the AWM Newsletter and a Faculty Affiliate of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies as well as a Professor of Mathematics at Appalachian State University.Cathy Kessel was educated as a mathematician and has taught mathematics in various U.S. institutions of higher education, from Mills College to Ohio State University. During the 1990s, she made the shift from mathematics to mathematics education, auditing courses, and working on research projects at the School of Education at the University of California at Berkeley. This led to a career that has included editingreports, books, articles, and curriculum and standards documents. Recent projects are Progressions for the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and the National Academies report Mathematics Curriculum, Teacher Professionalism, and Supporting Policies in Korea and the United States. She is a past president of the Association for Women in Mathematics, recipient of AWM’s Hay Award for contributions to mathematics education, and fellow of the AWM.

“This is a good book for anyone interested in the AWM, or in the experiences of women in mathematics over the last fifty years.” (Tricia Muldoon Brown, MAA Reviews, October 30, 2022)

• AWM Through the Decades (J.L. Beery, S.J. Greenwald, C. Kessel).- Part I. How AWM Began.- When I Awoke (M. Gray).- Mathematicians Action Group and the Founding of AWM (C. Davis).- A Caucus is Born (J. Darken).- Part II. How it Was, How Should it Be?.- How it Was (J. Roitman).-  My AWM Experience (E.E. May).- Reflection on Diversity from a Former National Science Foundation Program Officer (L. Douglas).- Mathematicians for Equal Opportunity (A. Silverberg).- Part III. How AWM Grew.- How AWM Changed My Life (J. Green).- Starting and Early Days of AWM (P.C. Kenschaft).- A Brief History of the Association for Women in Mathematics (L. Blum).- Reflections from AWM's Fourth President (J. Roitman).- This and That (A. Leggett).- Reminisces (B.A.B. Case).- Part IV. Organizing AWM Workshops, Panels, Regional Meetings, Research Networks, and Research Symposia.- Trying to Make the Math World a Better Place (S. Geller).- Intertwining Paths (C.A. Roberts).- Seeking Advice Through the Associationfor Women in Mathematics (C. Sormani).- My Journey Alongside the Association for Women in Mathematics (D. Danielli).- How AWM Panel Discussions Brought Me to the AWM Community (J.A. Jensen-Vallin).- The Road Less Traveled (R. Higgins).- From Graduate School to Tenure (K.A. Ott).- Meeting AWM Members Where They Are (B. Mayfield).- Part V. Telling Our AWM Stories.- Telling Our Stories (V.E Howell, H.A. Lewis).- The AWM, 50 Years Ago and Today (J. Birman).- My Personal Interaction with AWM (K.K. Uhlenbeck).- AWM Activity of Fern Y. Hunt (F.Y. Hunt).- Supporting Women in Mathematics and Computer Science (M. M. Klawe).- Personal Reflections (L. Hogben).- What AWM Has Meant to Me (S. Landau).- High Hopes (S. Kiliç-Bahi).- How AWM Can Help Support and Shape a Career (K. Kavanaugh).- Part VI Individuals, Institutions, Recognition, Collaboration.- Mathematical Institutions and the “In” of the Association for Women in Mathematics (M. Barany).- Alice Turner Shafer (J. Lorenat).- Women as Data and as Individuals (L. E. Turner).- Snapshots of AWM’s Alice T. Schafer Prize Winners (J. A. Gallian).- Gender and the Cultural Construction of Individualism and Collaboration in Mathematics (S. H. Hottinger).- Part VII. Reflecting on Fifty Years of Women in Mathematics.- Has There Been Progress for Academic Women Since Title IX? (L. Billiard).- Welcome to What? (M. Senechal).- Reminiscences, Anecdotes, Reflections (J. V. Grabiner).-  Snapshots of Five Decades (T. H. Straley).-  Women and Mathematics (E. L. Poiani).- Part VIII Outreach, Inreach, and Mentoring.- Women Count! (B. Yanik).- Twenty Years of the AWM Mentor Network (A. Ghazaryan, R. Kuske, and E. Lawrence).- The SummerMath and SEARCH Programs 1982-2009, Mount Holyoke College (C. Morrow and J. Morrow).- Mentoring and Providing Community for Young Women (D. Haunsperger).- Advisor Actions (W. Y. Vélez and A. J . H. Christensen).- Mentoring and Empowering with (Sometimes) Distressing Mathematics (H. G. Grundman).- A Few Memories and Insights from a 50-Year Career (N. Jochnowitz).- Celebrating AWM’s Fiftieth Anniversary (C. Shu).- Part IX. Education and AWM.- (The Education Column in the AWM Newsletter (J. M. Dewar).- The Improbable Member of AWM Who Stuck Around for a Few Decades (E. D. Voolich).- The AWM (Mathematics) Education Committee (P. Hsu and J. M. Dewar).- Part X. AWM in Her Teens.- Reflections of AWM’s Fifth President (B. Srinivasan).- Reflections from the Sixth President (L. Rothschild).- Reflections of AWM’s Seventh President on AWM in the Mid-1980s (L. Keen).- My AWM Presidency (R. Hughes).- AWM’s Executive Director 1987-88 (L. Kenschaft).- Part XI AWM in Her Twenties.- Into the Nineties (J. P. Mesirov).- 1991-1992 Plus and Minus ε (C. Wood).- Reflections of Chuu-Lian Terng (C. Terng).- Musings on being AWM’s Thirteenth President (S. Wiegand).- Part XII AWM in Her Thirties.- A Blast from the Past and a Hope for the Future (J. E. Taylor).- Connections with my AWM Family (S. Lenhart).-Progress and Hope (C. Gordon).- Interesting Times (B. L. Keyfitz).- Reminiscences and Reflections of AWM’s Eighteenth President (C. Kessel).- The Evolution of the AWM Executive Director Position (M. L. McCarthy, K. Pershell, and J. J. Quinn).- Part XIII AWM in Her Forties.- Reflections of AWM’s Nineteenth President (G. Benkart).- A Personal Reflection by AWM’s 21st President (R. Charney).- AWM and the Genius of Women (K. Lauter).- AWM in Her Forties (M. Lien).- Part XIV Advocacy, Policy, and Recognition.- A Mathematician’s Adventures in Advocacy and Policy (K. Saxe).- AWM Hill Days (M. B. Snider).- The Crucial Work of the AWM Policy and Advocacy Committee (G. Letzter and M. A. Vitulli).- Recognition for Professional Achievement (B. Mayfield).- Part XV AWM Student Chapters.- University of Oregon AWM Chapter (E. Bellah, S. Frei, L. Merrill, and K. Pohland).- Building Community through the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Student Chapter (F. Bernardi).- The Florida Atlantic University Student Chapter of AWM (C. Berrouët, A. Myers, A. Robinson, and Y. Wang).- Journey of the University of Houston AWM Student Chapter (J. Bhullar, P. Bedekar, and Y. Gorb).- Society for Women in Mathematics at the Colorado School of Mines (D. Carney, K. Leiderman, and R. Swanson).- Looking Within and Reaching Out (G. Jaffe and M. Nahvi).- The AWM at the University of Kentucky (K. Ponto, K. Sawyer, and C. Slone).- My Unspoken Mathematical Journey (J. Vega).- Part XVI National and International Groups That Support Women in Mathematics.- AWM in Context (A. Ackerberg-Hastings).- European Women in Mathematics and the European Mathematical Society’s Women in Mathematics Committee (M. Roy and C. Series).- Korean Women in Mathematical Sciences (S. Kang and K. K. Park).- Indian Women and Mathematics (N. Agarwal, A. Habib, and G. Venkataraman).- Women in Mathematics Special Interest Group of the Australian Mathematics Society (C. E. Praeger and L. A. Ward).- The African Women in Mathematics Association (M. F. Ouedraogo).- Women of Nepal in Mathematical Sciences (D. Thapa and A. Pokharel).- Now That We’re Together (M. I. Cortez and A. Vera-Gajardo).- International Initiatives for Women Mathematicians (M. Roy and C. Series).- Part XVII AWM at Fifty.- No Ordinary Time (R. Haas).- Creating A Place (K. Leonard).